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Qutub Minar with Crescent Moon and Venus

Photographer

pkumar.nii@gmail.com

Email

pkumar.nii@gmail.com

Location of photo

Qutub Minar, Delhi

Date/Time of photo

3 December 2016, 6:49PM, IST

Equipment

Nikon D800 with 70-300mm lens

Description

On 3rd December 2016 evening, Venus and Moon were only 5° apart. They were looking very pretty with Qutub Minar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutb_Minar) build by Qutb al-Din Aibak in 1200AD, in foreground. Camera stand is not permitted inside the Qutub Minar complex and it was quite challenging to make a stand out of nothing to take a 7 second exposure.

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